Overview

Serves as a senior specialist within Enterprise Storage Engineering, responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational integrity of storage platforms supporting critical M&T workloads. This role focuses on ensuring highly available, secure, and performant storage solutions across SAN, NAS, and object storage environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work closely with Technology management, senior engineers, and platform teams to design, implement, and operate scalable enterprise storage solutions that meet current and future demands.

• Provision, configure, and maintain enterprise storage platforms including block (SAN), file (NAS), and object (S3-compatible) storage systems in highly available, redundant environments.

• Monitor, analyze, and tune storage system performance to ensure consistent delivery of high throughput and low latency data access for critical applications.

• Design and implement storage architectures supporting resilience, disaster recovery, and data protection requirements (e.g., replication, backup, recovery, immutability).

• Enforce and implement security controls across storage platforms including encryption, access controls, zoning, and authentication mechanisms aligned with enterprise standards.

• Support infrastructure lifecycle activities adhering to SDLC standards.

• Perform capacity planning and optimization to ensure efficient utilization of storage resources and proactive scaling aligned to business growth.

• Develop and maintain automation solutions to streamline storage provisioning, monitoring, and operational processes, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.

• Diagnose and resolve complex storage-related incidents; lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions in accordance with incident management procedures.

• Ensure all storage changes follow established change management processes, with appropriate approvals, documentation, and audit traceability.

• Coordinate with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams on integrations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management activities.

• Regularly engage with business partners and application teams to understand data storage requirements, performance expectations, and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).

• Mentor and coach junior engineers; review designs, changes, and operational procedures to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.

• Maintain deep knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN fabrics, all-flash arrays, replication technologies, and NAS platforms used within M&T environments.

• Support audit and regulatory activities by providing technical documentation, logs, and evidence for storage configurations and operations.

• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, identifying and escalating risks where appropriate.

• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.

• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Required

• Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture

• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade Storage), SAN fabrics (Cisco/Brocade), and NAS solutions.

• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware) and hybrid cloud storage integrations

Education an Experience Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field preferred.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a focus on storage and data protection technologies

Competencies / Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of:

  • SAN/NAS/Object storage architectures

  • Fibre Channel and IP-based storage networking

  • Snapshot, Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery methodologies

  • Storage performance tuning and capacity management

  • Kubernetes containers

• Experience with automation (e.g., scripting, API-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform)

• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for enterprise data storage

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical storage solutions

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

• Process-oriented mindset with strong attention to detail

• Continuous learning mindset aligned to financial services and infrastructure trends

We support our team members with generous benefits. 

• Competitive compensation 

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits 

• 401(k) match at 5% 

• Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements 

• Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays  

• 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year 

• Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview 

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location

Buffalo, New York, United States of America